This is a preliminary bibliography of the journal IEEE Software, covering the years 1984–1997.

Keywords:

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Author Comments:

There is a World Web Wide site for this journal at http://computer.org/software, with (pagenumber-less) tables of contents, links to article abstracts, and subject and author indexes, for 1994 and 1995. The initial draft of this bibliography was derived from the OCLC Contents1st database, after conversion to BibTeX form, and extensive editing and correction. This was then augmented with entries from the author's personal bibliography files, from the computer graphics bibliography archive at ftp.siggraph.org, and from a very large computer science bibliography collection on ftp.ira.uka.de in /pub/bibliography to which many people of have contributed. The snapshot of this collection was taken on 5-May-1994, and it consists of 441 BibTeX files, 2,672,675 lines, 205,289 entries, and 6,375 <at>String abbreviations, occupying 94.8MB of disk space. Where multiple sources of a particular entry existed, field values have been manually merged to preserve maximal information. In this bibliography, entries are sorted in publication order, using bibsort -byvolume. This journal has a glitzy magazine-style layout. The tables of contents correspond only vaguely to the article titles, which themselves are often uncertain because of the (in my view, absymal) typographical layout, and the `catchy' titles often fail to reflect the contents. Thus, there are many uncertain authors and titles in this bibliography, because journal databases are sometimes derived only from the tables of contents.